India has strengthened ties with most of its South Asian neighbours, the US and Russia, while at the same time participating in security groupings with China.
Australian federal elections are being increasingly impacted by our relationship with China. But not in the way depicted by the current federal government.
The combination of great power contestation, coupled with governance and environmental challenges points to the need for visionary management by Australia.
Feminist foreign policy is an approach which places gender equality as the central goal of foreign policy, in recognition that gender equality is a predictor of peaceful and flourishing societies.